Medieval Worlds Resource

The Medieval Academy of America recently launched an new outreach site called Medieval Worlds: K-12 Learning Resources. There is not much content yet, but I with them luck with this worthwhile endeavor.

The site can be accessed at https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/medievlalacademyk12/home.

SMART Fall 2015

The latest number of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching arrived recently in the mail. The focus of Vol. 22, No. 2 is on teaching Old English. Full contents from SMART's website (http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart) follow:

Fall 2015 (Volume 22, Issue 2)
OLD ENGLISH ACROSS THE CURRICULUM—CONTEXTS AND PEDAGOGIES (featured collection guest edited by Haruko Momma and Heide Estes)

Introduction

HARUKO MOMMA and HEIDE ESTES  Old English across the Curriculum—Contexts and Pedagogies
Part 1:  Historical Old English

FRED C. ROBINSON  Why Study Old English?
CARLA MARÍA THOMAS  Blurring the Lines: Early Middle English in the Old English Classroom
HEIDE ESTES  Teaching Old English in History of the English Language
Part 2:  Old English through Different Media

PETER S. BAKER  On Writing Old English
ERIC WEISKOTT  A Plea for Pronunciation
MARTIN CHASE  Teaching Old English Codicology and Palaeography from the Beginning
Part 3:  Interactive Old English

ERICA WEAVER  Attending to Poems: Learning from Latin Pedagogy
BOB HASENFRATZ  Paradigm Bashing Challenges to Teaching and Learning Old English in the Twenty-First Century
NIENKE C. VENDERBOSCH  The Language Bank as a Tool for Active Learning
MARTIN FOYS  Hwæt sprycst þu?: Performing Ælfric’s Colloquy
Part 4:  Old English in/and Translation

STACY S. KLEIN  Anglo-Saxon Pedagogy and the “Circle of Shame”
MICHAEL MATTO  Remainders: Reading an Old English Poem through Multiple Translations
MO PARELES  Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Old English
Afterword

HARUKO MOMMA  By All Means
Appendices

PETER S. BAKER  Hærrig Wand Bygeþ [Harry Buys a Wand]
BOB HASENFRATZ  A Frequency List of Old English Vocabulary in a “Canonical” Corpus
JAY PAUL GATES  Reading Pronouns: An Entry to Medieval Textual Culture

TOM SHIPPEY  Book Reviews: Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes and Icelandic Sagas, by Jesse L. Byock; and Viking Language 2: The Reader, by L. Jesse Byock

STEPHEN F. EVANS  Book Review: Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze, edited by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, and Will Stockton

WILLIAM F. HODAPP  Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, edited by John Marenbon

CFP: “The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist” (collection) (7/31/15)

A worthwhile effort:

CFP: “The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist”
http://massmedieval.com/2015/06/08/cfp-the-ballad-of-the-lone-medievalist/

Contributions of any style and various lengths welcome!

For many medievalists who have had the good fortune to find jobs in academe, the professional reality is that we are unlikely to be surrounded by colleagues who share our areas of expertise and interest. In most cases, a department will hire only a single medieval specialist – and may be hard-pressed to convince administrations or hiring committees to approve even that one. Those lucky few who find a tenure-track position will then spend years explaining their work to colleagues, chairs, grant committees, and eventually tenure reviewers who know little about the work we do; others, in non-tenure or adjunct positions, must decide whether maintaining an interest in medieval studies is wise or even possible as the entry-level-course teaching load piles up. While the advent of digital technologies has brought us the possibility of closer contact and greater collaboration with our fellow medievalists, our resource access, scholarly profile, teaching opportunities, tenure cases, and other facets of our professional lives can be affected by our lack of numbers and by questions about the nature and value of what we do.

This collection, as the title suggests, will address the realities of professional engagement, curriculum planning, and reappointment and tenure cases as the “lone medievalist” in a department or institution. We are interested in almost any style of submission that is concerned in a meaningful and productive way with the topic of “the lone medievalist.” This will not be a collection bewailing the state of medieval studies in small institutions. Rather, we envision a collection offering camaraderie, suggestions, resolution, and advice, while simultaneously creating a snapshot of the current state of Medieval Studies as it manifests itself through the careers and daily work of medievalist academics. We intend it to be forward-thinking and revitalizing as well as helpful to those of us in these positions.

Send proposals (do not have to be too long or formal – around 100-200 words to give us a good sense of your idea) either through Facebook messaging or to the email addresses: ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu and john.sexton@bridgew.edu. We are looking for a combination of anecdotes, stories, longer essays, manifestos, and advice – various lengths, any style. We do recommend 1000-5000 words (longer will be considered as well) or the equivalent (e.g. a photographic essay or a collection of documents). We anticipate a quick turnaround on this, so let’s get moving! The initial deadline for proposals will be July 31, 2015. The initial deadline for contributions is scheduled for October 31, 2015.

SMART for Spring 2015

The latest number (22.1) of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching is now available. It can be ordered online at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart.

Details from http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart&p=currentissuesmart

The Spring 2015 issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching features an exciting collection of articles on innovative approaches to teaching Chaucer—who, for some, is easily seductive, for others, not so captivating. Although there are a number of excellent resources available to instructors, few of them offer much in the way of specific assignments or activities. The seven essays offered in this collection are presented to assist both the expert and the beginning teacher with a variety of novel pedagogical methods for helping students appreciate Chaucer and for helping educators reinvigorate their teaching methods.

This issue also includes three equally appealing diverse papers:  covering the daily life of pre-modern people in history courses, teaching with Twitter, and moving between vernacular verse and Latin prose in a seminar on Troilus and Criseyde. Six book reviews round out the volume.

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING CHAUCER

(collection guest edited by Alison Langdon and David Sprunger)

ALISON LANGDON AND DAVID SPRUNGER Introduction: Innovative Approaches To Teaching Chaucer

GLENN STEINBERG Teaching Chaucer through Chaucer’s Bookshelf

CANDACE BARRINGTON Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: A Fundamental Approach

MICHAEL MURPHY Chaucer: The Text and the Teaching Text

ROBERTA MILLIKEN Using Rap Music to Teach an Appreciation of Chaucer’s Language in the British Literature Survey Class

SARAH POWRIE Lost and Found in Translation: Updating Chaucer’s Status with the Millennial Generation

REBECCA BRACKMANN To Caunterbury They Tweete: Twitter in the Chaucer Classroom

MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES Prdn Me? Text Speak, Middle English, and Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale

CHRIS CRAUN Covering the Daily Life of Pre-Modern People in History Courses

MARY C. FLANNERY Teaching with Twitter: A Medievalist’s Case Study

ARVIND THOMAS Moving between Vernacular Verse and Latin Prose in an Undergraduate Seminar on Troilus and Criseyde

STEPHEN F. EVANS Book Review: At Home in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, by Geraldo U. de Sousa

MEL STORM Book Review: The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur, edited by Norris J. Lacy

BARBARA HANAWALT Book Review:  Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City, 1550–1660, by Paul Griffiths

DONALD WINEKE Book Review:  The Shakespeare Handbooks: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Martin White

STEPHANIE HORTON Book Review:  Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature, by Gillian Rudd

AMY MORRIS Book Review:  Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c. 500–1200, by Helen M. Jewell

Both spring and fall 2015 issues of SMART are included in the yearly subscription price of $25 for individuals, $30 for libraries and centers, and $30 for subscriptions outside of the United States. Prepayment is required. A subscription form can be printed by clicking on Subscription Information in the left side bar area.

SMART for 2015

Subscriptions are now available for the 2015 issues of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Full information at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart&p=index.

The Spring number (see below) will focus on teaching Chaucer.

SMART Fall 2014 News

The latest number (21.2 for Fall 2014) of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching is now available. It is a special issue on "Teaching Medieval Drama" guest edited by Sheila Christie. Full contents will be posted as soon as they are made available on the SMART web site (http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart).

Higgins Armory Update

As I think I've posted before, the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been closed, its collection transferred to the Worcester Art Museum and building up for sale. I'm sorry to see the Higgins go; it was a great resource and wonderful site for developing interest in the medieval in persons of all ages. Further details of the transfer at http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/knights/.

A history of the Higgins has been produced to aid in the sale. It can be accessed at http://www.higgins.org/WermielHAM.pdf.

SMART 21.1 Out Now

Now available to subscribers (details at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart):

STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING
(SMART)

CURRENT ISSUE INFORMATION

The Spring 2014 Issue 1 of Volume 21 of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching presents a small collection of articles on teaching William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Like Chaucer, Langland addressed perplexing societal problems, yet his work is not taught as often as Chaucer’s. Langland’s position as one of the most important of medieval English writers raises several questions: Should Langland be taught to undergraduates? If so, in what contexts should he be taught? How can Langland be made relevant for current under-graduates? These papers, originally delivered at a session of the 2008 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, attempt to answer these questions.

This issue of SMART also offers several other fine articles on a variety of topics—teaching Percy’sReliques of Ancient English Poetry, understanding Beowulf through a modern contrast, teaching medieval literature at a Hispanic-serving institution, employing the Crusades as a tool to discuss the relationship between Islam and the West, using anachronistic movies to successfully teach medieval history, and editing and teaching medieval drama.  The volume is rounded out with some excellent book reviews.

TEACHING PIERS PLOWMAN
(collection guest edited by Theodore L. Steinberg)

THEODORE L. STEINBERG Introduction: Teaching Piers Plowman

THOMAS GOODMANN Why Not Teach Langland?

THEODORE L. STEINBERG I’m Dreaming of Piers Plowman

LOUISE BISHOP Piers Plowman: Text and Context

ADAM H. KITZES Canonicity, Literary History, and the Survey of English Literature: Teaching Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry to Undergraduates

MEGAN HARTMAN Beowulf  Then and Now: Understanding the Medieval Hero through a Modern Contrast

R. JACOB MCDONIE Teaching Medieval Literature at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

MERIEM PAGES The Crusades as a Tool to Discuss the Relationship between Islam and the West in Medieval Europe

JULIE ELB Knights! Camera! Action! Using Anachronistic Movies to Successfully Teach Medieval History

CLAIRE SPONSLOR Is There a Play in This Book? Editing and Teaching Medieval Drama

SUSAN KENDRICK Book Review: The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies,
by Penny Gay

E. L. RISDEN Book Review: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376–1422),
translated by David Preest, with introduction and notes by James G. Clark

GWENDOLYN MORGAN Book Review: European Sexualities, 1400–1800, by Katherine Crawford

BRIGITTE ROUSSEL Book Review: Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape in the Later Middle Ages, by Jeremy Goldberg

LESLEY A. COOTE Book Review: Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages, by Noah D. Guynn

CHRISTINA FRANCIS Book Review: Brueghel’s Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class, & Culture in the Late Middle Age, by John Block Friedman

SMART for Spring 2013

News on the latest issue from http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart&p=currentissueSMART:

STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING (SMART)
CURRENT ISSUE INFORMATION

The Spring 2013 issue of Volume 20 of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching features a unique collection of articles on teaching the Middle Ages at minority-serving colleges and universities, guest edited by James M. Palmer and Pearl Ratunil. These essays originated from two NEH-sponsored roundtables focusing on the exchange of ideas regarding the teaching and study of medieval texts at minority-serving colleges. Their aim is to understand the position of medieval texts, especially those by Chaucer, in classrooms not dominated by one particular ideology of race. The interest of the authors is “not in creating more occasions of alienation for minority students but in empowering students to understand ethnic and racial differences through the acquisition of knowledge.” Special thanks to Professors Palmer and Ratunil for organizing and facilitating the completion of this collection.
This issue of SMART also includes three additional fine pedagogical articles on teaching The Man of Law’s Tale, teaching Milton alongside anti-misogyny literature, and teaching Chaucer out loud, as well as three excellent book reviews.


Teaching the Middle Ages at Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities

James M. Palmer and Pearl Ratunil, Guest Editors
 

JAMES M. PALMER and PEARL RATUNIL Introduction: Teaching the Middle Ages at Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities
PEARL RATUNIL “There the White Folks Go Again”: Medieval Studies and the Minority Student
MARY BEHRMAN Thanne Longen Morehouse Men to Goon on Pilgrimages
DONNA CRAWFORD Crossing the “Grisly Rokkes Blak”: Teaching Chaucer at an HBCU
MARY C. OLSON Is Relevance Relevant? Teaching the Middle Ages at an HBCU
KEN A. GRANT Dispelling the Myths: Medieval Studies at a Predominantly Hispanic University
BARBARA A. GOODMAN Fostering Medieval Studies within “Sondry” General Education Curricula
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NICOLE CLIFTON Teaching The Man of Law’s Tale
NATHANIAL B. SMITH The Eve Debates: Teaching Milton alongside Anti-Misogyny Literature
BERNARD LEWIS Teaching Chaucer Out Loud
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JAY RUUD Book Review:  Logic and Humour  in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology, by Roy J. Pearcy
ELIZABETH HYDE Book Review:  The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, by Christopher S. Mackay
TRACEY R. SANDS Book Review:  The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, by Nancy Marie Brown

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Both spring and fall 2013 issues of SMART are included in the yearly subscription price of $25 for individuals, $30 for libraries and centers, and $30 for subscriptions outside of the United States. Prepayment is required.

SMART for 2012

Been meaning to post an update on Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Here are the details for the 2012 volume. A complete back list and ordering information is available at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart&p=backissueSMART.

Spring 2012 (Volume 19, Issue 1)

TEACHING THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
(guest edited by Michael Johnston)

MICHAEL JOHNSTON Introduction to Teaching the History of the Book

ANDREW TAYLOR Experiencing Authority, Confronting the Cool: Bringing Medieval Book History into the Classroom

DAVID C. MENGEL Teaching the Codex as Writing Technology

ALLISON MURI Teaching the History and Future of the Book

DABNEY A. BANKERT and MARK RANKIN Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript and Print Culture in Theory and Practice

MICHAEL  JOHNSTON The History of the Book as a Supplement to the Literature Survey

ERIC J. JOHNSON “A closed book is a mute witness”: A Curator’s Approach toward Teaching with Rare Books and Manuscripts

COLLECTION CONTRIBUTORS Annotated Bibliography to Teaching the History of the Book Collection

LESLEY A. COOTE Book Review:  The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England, by Karl Tamburr

YVONNE BRUCE Book Review:  Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550–1700, by Kate Chedgzoy

CHRISTOPHER M. BELLITTO Book Review:  Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen: Essays in Honour of Maurice Keen, by Peter Coss and Christopher Tyerman

JUDITH FERSTER Book Review:  Chaucer’s Language, by Simon Horobin

Fall 2011 (Volume 18, Issue 2)

TEACHING ITALY
(guest edited by Barbara Stevenson)

BARBARA STEVENSON Introduction to Teaching Italy

MARY BETH LONG Gum-Poppers Deserve their Own Level of Hell: Teaching the Inferno to Baptists

BARBARA STEVENSON Representations of Saladin in the (New) Middle Ages

KURT M. BOUGHAN Teaching Goro Dati’s Libro segreto

KATHRYN A. HALL Teaching Christine de Pizan and the Text via Late Medieval Book Production in Bologna and Paris

CARL GRINDLEY The Whisper Game: Teaching Stemmatics

DARCI N. HILL Altered Arguments: A Textual Analysis of George Herbert’s “Man”

JAY RUUD “A Great Flash of Understanding”: Teaching Dante and Mysticism

ALEXANDRA COOK “Why Study the Middle Ages?”  On Re-Imagining the Medieval Literature Survey

JOHN M. GANIM Book Review:  Illustrating Camelot, by Barbara Tepa Lupack with Alan Lupack

ANTHONY J. CÁRDINAS-ROTTUNNO Book Review:  The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, by Jerrilyn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale

LESLEY A. COOTE Book Review:  Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception, by Russell Jackson

GWENDOLYN MORGAN Book Review:  Key Concepts in Medieval Literature, by Elizabeth Solopova and Stuart D. Lee

EDWARD CHRISTIE Book Review:  Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix, by Martha Dana Rust

ROBERT GRAYBILL Book Review:  The Medieval British Literature Handbook, edited by Daniel T. Kline

Terry Jones and the Medieval

The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (with additional information in the center from WorldCat)
The New Middle Ages
Edited By R. F. Yeager and Toshiyuki Takamiya

Palgrave Macmillan, May 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-11267-4, ISBN10: 0-230-11267-6
6.000 x 9.250 inches, 278 pages, 1 figures,

Hardcover $95.00

No one working today in Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Terry Jones' thought-provoking views. Through films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, educational television series for BBC and the History Channel, and books such as Chaucer's Knight and Who Murdered Chaucer?, Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and broad good humor to challenge, enlighten, and reform. The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones collects original essays by prominent and diverse medievalists in literature and history to celebrate the work of a dedicated independent scholar whose criticism has redirected how we understand the world of Chaucer and life in the Middle Ages.

"The Medieval Python: Essays presented to Terry Jones on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday collects original essays by eighteen prominent medievalists in literature and history to celebrate the work of a dedicated independent scholar whose consistently independent literary and historical criticism has several times redirected how we understand the world of Chaucer and his contemporaries. His film and television productions have entertained and educated generations of viewers about life in the Middle Ages"

The Medieval Works of Terry Jones--S.Ikeda

Young Jones at Oxford 1961-62--V.A.Kolve

The Earl of Arundel, the War with France, and the Anger of King Richard II--C.Given-Wilson

Terry Jones's Richard II--N.Saul

Terry Jones: The Complete Mediaevalist--M.Palin

Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions--D.Pearsall

Gower's Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis--P.Nicholson

Gower in Winter: Last Poems--R.F.Yeager

The Naughty Bits: Dating Chaucer's House of Fame and Legend of Good Women--J.M.Bowers

Honi soit qui mal y pense: Adultery and Anxieties about Paternity in Late Medieval England--M.Bennett

Needy Knights and Wealthy Widows: The Encounters of John Cornewall and Lettice Kirriel, 1378-1382--W.M.Ormrod

Making Medievalism: Teaching the Middle Ages through Film--M.Driver

The Silly Pacifism of Geoffrey Chaucer and Terry Jones--W.A.Quinn 

Legs and the Man: The History of a Medieval Motif--R.F.Green 

Chaucer, Langland, and the Hundred Years War--D.Wallace 

Jack and John: The Plowman's Tale--P.Martin

A Prayer Roll Fit for a Tudor Prince--J.J.Thompson 

Macbeth and Malory in the 1625 Edition of Peter Heylyn's Microcosmus: A Nearly Unfortunate Tale-- T.Takamiya

 

About the Editors:

R.F. Yeager is a professor of English and Foreign Languages and chair of the department at the University of West Florida. He is President of the International John Gower Society and the editor of JGN: The John Gower Newsletter. He has written and edited more than seventeen books and collections of essays, including John Gower's Poetic: The Search for a New Arion; A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower; Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery, with Terry Jones, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher and Juliette Dor; John Gower: The Minor Latin Works; John Gower: The French Balades and Approaches to Teaching John Gower's Poetry, with Brian W. Gastle.

Toshiyuki Takamiya, MA, HonLittD (Sheffield), HonDLitt (Glasgow), FSA, is Professor Emeritus at Keio Univeristy. He co-edited Aspects of Malory, with Derek Brewer, and has published many books and articles on Malory, Hilton, and the history of the book. He is Director of the Early Book Society and the Editor-in-chief of Poetica. 

Medieval YouTube

If you're looking for an innovative way to approach a medieval topic, check out the History for Music Lovers Channel on YouTube. A group of history teachers use modern songs to present information on medieval history and literature (among other topics). (Thanks to Mr. Vincent Zibelli of Smithfield High School for the head's up.)

RTMA: Robert Sabuda's ARTHUR AND THE SWORD

Writer-artist Robert Sabuda is offering signed copies of his children's book Arthur and the Sword (1995) on his website. The book uses stained glass-style illustrations to retell the episode of the Sword and the Stone. The book is otherwise out of print.

Resources for Teaching the Middle Ages (RTMA): New issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (aka SMART)

The latest volume (15 for 2008) of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (aka SMART) is now available for order. Contents are as follows:

Spring 2008 (Volume 15, Issue 1)
TEACHING THE MIDDLE AGES AT SMALL COLLEGES (guest edited by William Hodapp)
WILIAM F. HODAPP Introduction
BRENT A PITTS Jump-Starting a Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at a Small Comprehensive College
RICK MCDONALD Enthusiasm and A'muse'ment: Making Students Crazy for Medieval Classes
DOMINIQUE BATTLES and PAUL BATTLES Building a Better Introduction to a Medieval English Literature Course
MICKEY SWEENEY Generating Enthusiasm: Performing Chaucer in the Small Liberal Arts College Classroom
ANDREA SCHUTZ No Tidal Bore at All: Teaching The Seafarer to Maritimers
JOHN D. COTTS Was Bernard of Clairvaux a Republican? The Middle Ages and the Liberal Liberal Arts College
WILLIAM F. HODAPP and TODD WHITE From Scriptorium to Press: The Book as Focus in a Small College Medieval and Renaissance Studies Seminar
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SHANNON GAYK Teaching Chaucer's Legacy
ALEXANDER L. KAUFMAN Teaching Medieval Outlaws
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DAVID J. DUNCAN Book Review: Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923, by Caroline Finkel
ANNETTE LEZOTTE Book Review: Saints in Medieval Manuscripts, by Greg Buzwell
KATHRYN L. REYERSON Book Review: Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World--Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, by Olivia Remie Constable
SISTER MARY CLEMENTE DAVLIN, OP Book Review: A Guidebook to Piers Plowman, by Anna Baldwin
RICHARD L. HARRIS Book Review: Einarr Skulason's "Geisli": A Critical Edition, edited by Martin Chase

Fall 2008 (Volume 15, Issue 2)
PEDAGOGY OF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (guest edited by K. Aaron Smith and Susan M. Kim)
K. AARON SMITH and SUSAN M. KIM Introduction
HARUKO MOMMA Prefatory Remarks by the Roundtable Organizer: How the Project Began and Where It Might Go from Here
MICHAEL MATTO Standard English and Standards of English: Where HEL Meets Composition Studies
ROBERT STANTON Reaching High School Teachers and Students in the HEL Classroom
EDWIN DUNCAN Reaching Out: The Web as a Learning Tool
ROBERT D. STEVICK Seasoned Suggestions for Teaching the History of English
MOIRA FITZGIBBONS Using Gullah as a Focal Point in an HEL Course
K. AARON SMITH and SUSAN M. KIM Fighting in Public: Approaches to Team Teaching HEL and Bridging English Studies
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MAIRI COWAN Teaching the English Reformation to History Students Through the Music of Thomas Tallis
MARCIA SMITH MARZEC Reading the Cross: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching The Dream of the Rood
ERIN MULLALLY The New Girl in School: Teaching Judith in a Survey Course
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ANNA DRONZEK Book Review: Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England, by David Gary Shaw
JAY RUUD Book Review: Chaucer and the City, edited by Ardis Butterfield
SIAN ECHARD Book Review: Print Culture and the Medieval Author--Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books 1473-1557, by Alexandra Gillespie
C. DAVID BENSON Book Review: Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: A Casebook, edited by Lee Patterson
SANDY FEINSTEIN Book Review: Horse and Man in Early Modern England, by Peter Edwards

SMART publishes articles related to teaching medieval and early modern topics at the high school and undergraduate level. Most issues include some discussion of using popular culture in the classroom. The journal is published twice a year. Individual subscriptions are $20, and single issues are $10. Further details and complete contents of all volumes can be found at their web site, where they also offer back issues of another journal, now defunct, called Teaching the Middle Ages (aka TMA).